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Anyway, I just borrowed this compilation Hollies- "Essential Classics" at the library and I'm mildly blown away. "Lullaby to Tim" sounds like the blueprint of Guided by Voices' entire catalog. Most of these songs sound like Beatle's B-sides or something. Except they all should have been hits. "I Can't Let Go," "Yes I Will", "Away, Away, Away," "Headed for a Fall", so many should of been classics. Not to mention the actual hits- "Bus Stop," "King Midas," etc.

This compilation seems to be incomplete though. I want to hear "Look Through Any Window" and "Dear Eloise" and I'm sure possibly other songs that I've read about but not heard. Anybody know if there is a definitive compilation of if any of their albums are worth checking out?

By the way, classic.

― ColinO, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:17 (seventeen years ago) link

insane there's not a thread on them! that can't be right. They're great up through Graham Nash's departure, although the albums are pretty spotty. I have a hits collection and one of their psych-period albums, "Evolution" (Lullaby to Tim and Heading for a Fall are both on there). Peter Bagge has a funny piece about them and how much he loves those insanely high harmonies.

Pretty classic, although the songwriting isn't always up to par - "Evolution" and "Butterfly" LPs both hit every single British psych stereotype there is, which is both a good thing and a bad thing, in many ways.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

http://mahkka.home.att.net/holly.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link

"I Can't Let Go" and "Yes I Will" were both big hits in Britain, but then their single schedules differed widely from country to country.

I have a double greatest hits collection which covers all the basics as well as Evolution and Butterfly and that kind of does for me though I suspect that the early seventies stuff in particular needs revisiting.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"Would You Believe" is wonderful album and a personal favourite.

― everything, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I need to check that one out.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm familiar with about 6 of their albums and it's the best - most consistent, no bad songs, not cheesy. "I Can't Let Go" is on their but it almost stands out as being quite Beatlesy amongst a bunch of more stripped down numbers. The opening song "I Take What I Want" is just fabulous.

I like their psych-era stuff like Butterfly too, of course. You must have a taste for the sugary end of that whole "cup of tea" psychedelia though (I do).

― everything, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:26 (seventeen years ago) link

On Pick Of The Pops last Sunday they were doing April 1977 and in the album chart there was a Hollies live double album. "I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top" really is an extraordinary song - performed live, it actually did sound like the Verve, and Kevin Rowland's cover goes somewhere beyond intense.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link

classic! the Hollies put out great Merseybeat stuff w/gorge harmonies, psychedelicized w/o embarrassing themselves -- Evolution-- and post-Nash were still a reliable singles band thru the mid 70s: "I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top" "Gasoline Alley Bred" "Long Hard Road' "Long Cool Woman" hey I dig "All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe" and "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother" even if you don't.

a 2-disc bestof like Epic Anthologyshould convert skeptics.

― m coleman, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:50 (seventeen years ago) link

They have been keeping it going for 50 years or something and obviously everything they have dones isn't quite as classic.

Their 60s stuff was mostly truly great though. "Butterfly" is one of those overlooked 60s psych pop masterpieces.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

An old Hollies thread

― C. Grisso/McCain, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Hollies doing Dylan's "Quit Your Lowdown Ways" is choice. For Certain Because is probably my favorite of the original LPs.

― whisperineddhurt, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

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